> 
> [NuVAX-in-flash-BIOS description]
> 
> I just *love* how close your description is to my Ersatz-11 PDP-11 emulator!
>
Great minds think alike.

> MSCP-on-IDE, multi DEUNA/DEQNA emulation using a built-in NE2000 driver, Alt-Fn
> to switch virtual consoles, serial muxes on console and/or COM ports...
> It tweaks the EGA/VGA font to be VT100-*like* (has the cute little FF/VT/CR
> chars, _ is moved up level with the baseline, ! doesn't look like a footprint)
> but not quite the real thing;  I did some experimentation years ago with using
> the actual exact VT100 font (yes I have no life, I blew a whole afternoon
> squinting at it and scribbling on graph paper) but just couldn't get it
> to look good.  The VT100 character cell is 10 rows high while the EGA uses
> 14 and the VGA uses 16, if you just plug the VT100 defs in as-is the space
> between the rows is too big (and the line-drawing chars don't connect up),
> and I couldn't find a way to scale the chars w/o looking ridiculous.  Even
> with the squished 10-line form it looked nicely reassuring, definitely very
> familiar even though the EGA/VGA doesn't do the VT100's weird bit doubling.
> 
> Every now and then someone asks about a VAX version but so far it doesn't look
> like there's enough commercial interest to justify the 6-12 months or whatever
>
Open source, man.  Open source.  :-)

> that it would take to write and debug the first model (I'm assuming I can
> emulate a Q/Unibus VAX model and re-use my disk/tape/mux/Ethernet emulations,
> they were by far the hardest part of the PDP-11 emulation but the VAX CPU
> is nothing to sneeze at either so it alone is still a very big deal).
> 
> John Wilson
> D Bit
> 

Regards,
John Havard